Zhanggong district culture

Gannan tea-picking drama is a local drama that combines Gannan folk oral literature with folk music and dance, and is widely popular in Hakka areas. Gannan Tea-picking Opera "Oral Part" now uses Ganzhou dialect, which mostly reflects the production and living conditions of working people in rural areas of Gannan, with distinctive local colors and rich life atmosphere. Mainly comedies and burlesque, humorous and lively style. Music mainly uses suona, lantern opera music accompanied by gongs and drums and "Hook Tube" (Huqin) tea-picking music. There are four kinds of tunes: light cavity, tea cavity, road tone and color tone, and fan and short step are the most distinctive acting skills. Gannan has been rich in famous tea since ancient times, and the activities of picking tea songs and lanterns are very active. In the middle and late Ming dynasty, it gradually developed into a triangular class performing tea lanterns. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the tea-picking lanterns in eastern Guangdong were introduced to southern Jiangxi, and combined with the folk lanterns in the tea area of Jiulongshan in Anyuan, it evolved into a tea-picking drama with simple plot and characters, named "Tea Picking Sisters". After the transformation, with paper fans as props, it created dramas such as selling tea and bench dragons. At this point, the tea-picking lamp evolved into a tea-picking drama in southern Jiangxi. Since then, the tea-picking drama in southern Jiangxi has developed rapidly and spread outward in three branches: one goes down the Gongjiang River, enters Ji 'an area through counties in southern Jiangxi, and then flows to western Jiangxi and central Hunan; The other branch spread along Wuyishan area to western Fujian, northern Fujian and eastern Jiangxi; The third branch entered Guangdong and Guangxi from eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong.

Originally known as Ganzhou Opera, Donghe Opera in Ganzhou is called Donghe Opera because its birthplace and main popular area are Donghe (Gongjiang) basin. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of singing story with high tune in the areas of Egret, Tiancun and Laotian in Ganxian County, which was the embryonic form of Donghe Opera. During the popular period of in-class classes, every time there is a meeting with God, boys and girls in rural areas will be chosen to dress up as Shinto, fairy buddhas in myths and legends, and the main characters in popular operas, marching on their shoulders, which is called "storytelling" locally, and then this kind of "storytelling" will be put on the stage for performance. In the third year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1646), the first group of children of Kunqu opera who mainly sang high-pitched operas such as Mulian, The Journey to the West and The History of the Three Kingdoms were formally established in Tiancun, Ganxian County, and a "snow-picking class" was established. The establishment of these two class clubs marked the beginning of the formation of China traditional opera with Gao Kun as its main theme.

Hakka bamboo carving craft is a stunt handed down by Hakka people since ancient times, and it is a folk arts and crafts that people love to see and hear. Carved works are mostly pen containers, incense sticks, plaques, bamboo root figures and so on. Some sculptures are simple, simple and generous, while others are meticulous and fine, with dense patterns and endless changes. The main carving methods are yinxian, Yang Ke, round carving, through carving, deep relief or high relief. Hakka bamboo carving technology has a long history. On the basis of traditional bamboo carving art, zhanggong district Hakka bamboo carving has created a "fake carving method" of Hakka, which has become a major breakthrough in the history of bamboo carving. Outstanding features: First, combine China's China calligraphy, China's traditional decorative patterns with China's traditional sculptures; Second, stick to tradition, not stick to tradition, and adopt an eclectic carving technique on the basis of inheriting China's traditional calligraphy carving.